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6	A {{Prop}} that's shaped like a tobacco pipe, but is clearly not on account of the fact that it blows soap bubbles. Related to NoSmoking, as it is used instead of a real pipe as it gives the same impression without the implications of tobacco use. It's seen often when children dress up as Literature/SherlockHolmes, or in attempt to look fancy or sophisticated.
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8	Compare DistinguishedGentlemansPipe, of which this trope is an affectionate diminutive.
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11	!!Examples:
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15	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
16	* Kyouya Ootori does this as the caterpillar in the Alice in Wonderland parody episode of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''.
17	* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' the jinchuriki of the six tails, Utakata has a pipe he blows bubbles out of as part of his combat style.
18	* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' episode [[Recap/Doraemon1979E1759SoapBubbles "Soap Bubbles"]] features a gadget that's basically a bubble pipe. The gadget in question, the Soap Bubble Straw, blows soap bubbles that cause people to [[HeelRealization immediately realize their mistakes]].
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21	[[folder:Fan Works]]
22	* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Penny tries to smoke a Sherlock Holmes-style calabash pipe in "The Murder Mystery," but is thoroughly surprised to see bubbles emerge from the bowl.
23	* In a ''Reporter's Inside Stories'' interview with Papa Smurf, which is part of the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' series, Papa Smurf is seen with a smoking pipe and is chided by Reporter about how harmful smoking is... until he sees that Papa Smurf is blowing bubbles with his pipe.
24	* In ''Fanfic/MissingLinc'', Luan uses one during her investigation into Lincoln's disappearance.
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27	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
28	* Garth holds one [[SmokingHotSex the morning after his first night]] with Honey Hornée in ''Film/WaynesWorld 2''. It's not revealed until the very end of the scene that it's a Bubble Pipe.
29	--> '''Garth:''' Party on!
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34	* ''Literature/AzothExpress'' has [[SherlockHomage improvised detective]] Volkov blowing into a bubble pipe when he's pondering, [[WonderfulWerewolf because he abhors smoking tobacco.]]
35	* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Qwill buys a few in book #12 (''The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal'') after it's suggested to him that the bubbles could be used to amuse the cats. Naturally, when Qwill tries it out for the first time, the pair are not impressed. He later gives them to Polly so she can use them to entertain Bootsie.
36	* Robert Fishman uses one in ''Literature/InvisibleWerewolfDraculaMeetsVampireMummyFrankenstein''. Not because he's a child, however, [[DontExplainTheJoke but because he's a fish man.]]
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40	[[folder:Live Action Television]]
41	* The episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' where her friend ends up in the Other Realm has the woman who reads out the laws of said realm blow on a bubble pipe when she's having her conversation with Sabrina.
42	** A much later episode had Sabrina and her friends involved in a Murder Mystery Weekend. Salem points out that the body is covered in pipe smoke. The only pipe smoker points out that Salem is smoking one as well, but Salem blows some bubbles out of his to prove his only blows bubbles.
43	* In one ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' episode, ("[[Recap/CheersS4E5DianesNightmare Diane's Nightmare]]") Diane dreams that Sam reveals himself as debonair and sophisticated, including smoking a pipe. When she wakes up, she goes to where the pipe was and finds that it really exists. Then she blows into it, and bubbles come out.
44	* Wyatt Cenac busts one out when pontificating on the distinction between ascots and neckerchiefs on ''Series/TheDailyShow''.
45	* Alfred Hitchcock is seen using one in the episode "The Perfect Crime" of ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents''
46	* Rick Series/{{Castle\|2009}}, once he becomes a PI, celebrates a closed case with a bubble ''cigar.''
47	* In one ''Series/SesameStreet'' skit, Ernie plays Old King Cole, and his pipe turns out to be a bubble pipe.'
48	* The Golgafrincham captain in ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'' uses one as he lounges in the bath [[spoiler:even after crash-landing on a prehistoric Earth]].
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51	[[folder:Magazines]]
52	* ''Magazine/{{MAD Magazine}}'' once had a comic where where two boys are blowing bubble pipes. One is exhaling bubbles like an actual pipe, to which the other says "I don't think you're supposed to inhale these."
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56	* In one sequence of ''ComicStrip/BigNate'', Nate finds out someone stole his lucky basketball socks and makes a huge deal out of finding them by dressing as a detective, complete with awful British accent and bubble pipe.
57	* Jason uses one in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' whenever he has delusions of being a millionaire and is trying to look sophisticated.
58	* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comics, Jon uses a bubble pipe once or twice. Garfield himself once blew soap bubbles with a real pipe:
59	-->'''Jon:''' My ivory-stemmed, mother-of-pearl inlaid meerschaum!\
60	'''Garfield:''' My blow toy.
61	* In one Christmas strip, ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'' gives Mr. Wilson a set of bubble pipes for a gift. [[MyNewGiftIsLame Mr. Wilson is less than thrilled,]] but Mrs. Wilson tries to remind him that at least the boy gave him a present.
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64	[[folder:Video Games]]
65	* ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' had a bubble blower in the ''House Party'' expansion pack that was pretty much a bong in all but name and visible function.
66	** ''VideoGame/TheSims2'''s University expansion introduced colorful bubble blowers that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything raised the Sims' fun meter at record speed,]] [[GRatedDrug made them giggle a lot and eventually made them ''float in the air'']].
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69	[[folder:Webcomics]]
70	* ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'' - Elvis, the senior cat, is sometimes shown with one, notably in [[https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/01/26 this strip]] where they showcase the outfits worn by different fictional PrivateDetective s.
71	* Quilt the necromatic golem uses one [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-09 several times]] in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''. Later actually used for something when he uses the bubbles as crystal balls as an alternative form of scrying, since crystal balls and other orthodox methods are being monitored.
72	* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'': Jamie has one as part of her Holmes-inspired "Romance Detective" look. She originally tried a real pipe, but [[OfCourseISmoke a few coughing fits later]] she decided it wasn't worth the health risks.
73	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Tedd has one [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-02-24 in an early strip.]] True to the comic's style, the bubbles come to life and attack him.
74	* ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'': The Christmas 2013 strip features a [[http://sabrina-online.com/strips/SabOnXmas13.JPG bubble bong.]]
75	* ''Webcomic/{{Kukuburi}}'': When TheMentor discusses further plans with his old friend, they "smoke" these to add to the generally surreal feel of the comic. As if a fez-wearing chameleon and a QuintessentialBritishGentleman who is also a purple quadropus weren't weird enough...
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79	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
80	** Bart blows bubbles from his pipe when he falls in love with an older girl and ends up dressing like Hugh Hefner.
81	** Bart also uses a bubble pipe when visiting the real Hugh Hefner in "Krusty Gets Kancelled".
82	* Used once in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', when Nazz was babysitting at Eddy's house and he believed that it was a date.
83	* Yakko Warner of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' (although he is drawn as a child, he was drawn around the 30s, technically making him at least in his 60s) once "puffed" on a soap-bubble pipe while parodying highbrow intellectuals.
84	* In a ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' pastiche of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', the Sherlock character (played by Larry the Cucumber) has a bubble pipe.
85	* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Sokka gets one for his Literature/SherlockHolmes impression in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarDay "Avatar Day"]].
86	* Beezy on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' uses one on occasion.
87	* Snoopy dons one of these in a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' special, [[WesternAnimation/ItsAMysteryCharlieBrown "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown"]], where he's playing a detective trying to find Woodstock's nest. Complete with a RunningGag of where the one large bubble goes...
88	* Master Shake of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has one in the episode "Two and a Half ''Franchise/StarWars'' Out of Five" when he suspects that the Pink Man is a werewolf. He also adopts Sherlock Holmes-like speech.
89	--> He is a werewolf, Fryman. He saw Carl's [[{{Mooning}} full moon]], and it changed him.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' makes use of this in the FreakyFridayFlip episode: TheProfessor, who is sometimes seen with [[DistinguishedGentlemansPipe a pipe]], had swapped bodies with Buttercup. He's seen with it later as Buttercup, but it humorously turns out to be a bubble pipe instead.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has used a bubble pipe in at least one episode. Not much of a surprise, considering how he blows bubbles in roughly 95% of the series, including entire episodes dedicated to them.
92	** Played with in "Little Yellow Book". [=SpongeBob=] says he has to take a break, goes outside, and blows bubbles with a bubble wand.
93	* True to the trope's description, Simon uses a bubble pipe (that he borrowed from Alvin) in the Sherlock Holmes episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''.
94	* Admiral Degill of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' is seen using a corncob version on occasion.
95	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Pinkie Pie and later Twilight Sparkle sport one of these while dressed up like Sherlock Holmes in the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "Mystery on the Friendship Express"]]. One of the show's background characters, an elderly stallion named Mr. Waddle, has the image of a bubble pipe as his cutie mark, and another bubble pipe cutie mark is included in the VirtualPaperDoll WebGames ''[[http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic/games/mlpfim-ponymaker The Fabulous PonyMaker]]'' and ''[[http://royalwedding.hosting-hasbro.com/fashion.html Rarity's Bridal Boutique.]]'' In a later episode, Discord blows bubbles from a corn cob pipe.
96	* In ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', Bunsen doesn't just imitate Sherlock; he uses the bubbles as a weapon against [[WeaksauceWeakness an allergic opponent]]. ([[InsaneTrollLogic How he determined the allergy is hard to defend]], but in a kiddie ImagineSpot it hardly matters.)
97	* In ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', Stork has one, most notable in "Leviathan", but in typical ''Storm Hawks'' fashion, the prop shows up all the time when the crew is throwing things around.
98	* Mr. Cat uses one in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''.
99	* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:
100	** In ''WesternAnimation/FathersArePeople'', Goofy lies down on his chair and smokes his pipe after coming home from work. He notices bubbles coming out of it and tells his son to stop playing with his pipe.
101	** In ''WesternAnimation/ACowboyNeedsAHorse'', a boy dreaming he's a cowboy shares a PeacePipe with a Native American chieftain. When it's the boy's turn, the pipe blows bubbles instead, which amuse the chief.
102	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Holy Crap," Stewie Griffin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7mnSvk1b68 uses one of these]] when he discusses market fluctuations in Asia with a group of British investors who look like they stepped out of the Victorian era. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
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